Monte Cahn was kind enough to provide a couple sales from Right of The Dot. Just want to announce that I / RightOfTheDot.com sold Kick.com for $276,077.45 and Cogent.com for $60,029.60. Feel free to post and I have more sales to report soon. Kick.com was registered back in 1995 and Cogent.com was registered in 1999. Congrats to Monte on a couple great sales. … [Read more...]
OnionWebsite.com has a $999,999 bid on Sedo
Back on May 22 we had a 2 million pound bid on Lifestyle.com at Sedo. That auction was later cancelled. After seeing this and asking Sedo why a bid was cancelled? What about verification? It turned out that when someone gets an offer and pushes to auction, there is no verification. Chris from Sedo replied on Namepros: Verification is only necessary when buyers want to make bids for … [Read more...]
Bunch of .app transactions lately
Prior to last week there were 63 reported .app sales on Namebio. Since June 10 there has been a flurry of action and 29 reported transactions. These have been taking place at Dynadot. There are also some .app trading hands over at eName. Names like DD.app and BX.app changing hands. Now when looking at the prices for LL.app I looked at what a transfer would cost at a couple registrars. … [Read more...]
Former men’s magazine Perfect10.com closes at $47,510
Perfect 10 was a men's magazine that looked to rival Playboy. The founder supposedly started the magazine when a friend got rejected from Playboy. I remember watching model boxing by Perfect 10 on Showtime back in the day. The company founder became quite litigious over the years and Wikipedia details some of them. One famous case was against Giganews. Perfect 10, Inc. v. Giganews, … [Read more...]
The rise of branding businesses around Corona/Covid
Trademarks, domain registrations and naming your company with Covid continue to move forward. Trademarks filed for things like CovidLivesMatter, (the .com was actually registered in March 2020). ICLG.com published an article that gives a deep dive to all 3 components in one place. The author noted a lot of legal from around the world are condemning these trademark registrations. From … [Read more...]
Post the best name you have for sale for $500 or less
READ EVERYTHING FIRST so you are not surprised if your comment is not published or removed. ANY EXTENSION THIS WEEK - 10 Names max post more and you get blocked Of course with a lot of links some posts get held, they will be approved as soon as they are seen, some people repost their list with the note comment is being held for moderation. Don’t do that!!! Only going to get you blocked. … [Read more...]
NameJet/Snapnames May sales led by Webmonkey.com
Web.com released their May sales report from NameJet/Snapnames. WebMonkey.com was the top sale at $65,500. Background on the name here. .Com took 80 out of 87 reported sales in … [Read more...]